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Prior to teaching, James Hoch was dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker and shepherd.  His poems have appeared in Slate, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Carolina Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review and many others.  They have been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize.  He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars.  He received a 2002 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is the recipient of a 2007 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Miscreants will be published by WW Norton in June 2007.  A Parade of Hands won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by Silverfish Review Press.  Originally from Collingswood, NJ, he resides in Mahwah, NJ, with his wife and son.  He has taught at Franklin and Marshall College and Lynchburg College.  Currently, he teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Read and/or listen to five poems by James Hoch and listen to interview questions and answers on the Fishouse website.

Barbara Bloom grew up in California and British Columbia.  She earned a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in English and creative writing from San Francisco State, and has taught composition and creative writing at Cabrillo College for over twenty years.  She has a grown daughter and two grandsons and lives with her musician husband and their dog in the countryside south of Santa Cruz.  On the Water Meridian (2007, Hummingbird Press) is her first full-length book.

Read five poems from On the Water Meridian by Barbara Bloom on the Hummingbird Press website.
 

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Poetry Santa Cruz receives funding from the the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.  Some of our readers receive funding from Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also sponsored by Casablanca Inn, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, The Attic, National Writers Union Chapter 7, KUSP, the William James Association, the Museum of Art & History, and Cabrillo College.  Membership premiums have been donated by Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Coffee House Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Robert Sward and Patricia Grube.